At DWS we know that you need a regular fashion 'fix' so our Hot Tip this week is to hop on Virgin Atlantic to New York and head to the Brooklyn Museum to see THE most wonderful exhibition THE FASHION WORLD OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER : FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE CATWALK.
This multimedia exhibition is organized around seven themes tracing the influences on Gaultier's development—from the streets of Paris to the cinema—since he emerged as a designer in the 1970s. It features approximately 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter ensembles, from the designer’s earliest to his most recent collections, many of which are displayed on custom mannequins with interactive faces created by high-definition audiovisual projections. Accessories, sketches, stage costumes, excerpts from films, and documentation of runway shows, concerts, and dance performances, as well as photographs by fashion photographers and contemporary artists who stepped into Gaultier’s world, explore how his avant-garde designs challenge societal, gender, and aesthetic codes in unexpected ways.
M. Gaultier may be a tad too old (!) to still keep his well-deserved accolade of fashion's 'enfant terrible' BUT as one of our VERY favorite designers he always will hold a special place in out hearts.
Go See!
